Homelabbing: Building a Mini PC Observability Platform, One Weekend at a Time
How an app-of-apps pattern, a dual-ingress topology, and multi-window burn-rate alerts turn a single mini PC into a production-grade platform laboratory.
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sre
S3 Files and the Coordination Tax in Regulated Data Pipelines
By Manu Balakrishnan Sreekumari
aws
S3 Files and the Coordination Tax in Regulated Data Pipelines
By Manu Balakrishnan Sreekumari
The Role Drift Problem Nobody Talks About
A new AWS account is provisioned. A runner role is created from a template. Everything is clean.
Building a Self-Service AWS Cleanup Solution for Sandbox Accounts using AWS-Nuke
I designed and built this end-to-end solution to help platform engineering teams manage AWS sandbox sprawl across multiple development teams. Here’s the stor...
homelab
Homelabbing: Building a Mini PC Observability Platform, One Weekend at a Time
How an app-of-apps pattern, a dual-ingress topology, and multi-window burn-rate alerts turn a single mini PC into a production-grade platform laboratory.
platform-engineering
The Role Drift Problem Nobody Talks About
A new AWS account is provisioned. A runner role is created from a template. Everything is clean.
Building a Self-Service AWS Cleanup Solution for Sandbox Accounts using AWS-Nuke
I designed and built this end-to-end solution to help platform engineering teams manage AWS sandbox sprawl across multiple development teams. Here’s the stor...
incident-analysis
Why “Human Error” Isn’t a Cause: It’s Where the Investigation Stopped
Early in my career as a young sysadmin, I accidentally deleted a customer database.
general
Welcome to My SRE & Linux Blog
Welcome! I’m starting this blog to share practical knowledge from my experience working with Linux systems, SRE practices, and cloud infrastructure.